HMCS JONQUIERE (K318)

The History of the JONQUIERE

Commissioned at Quebec City on May 11, 1944, she arrived at Halifax on June 5 and proceeded from there to Bermuda to work up. Returning in August, Jonqui?re was assigned to EG C-2 and after three Atlantic crossings was transferred to EG 26 at Londonderry. She was also based from time to time at Portsmouth and Plymouth, remaining in U.K. waters on anti-submarine patrol until May 27, 1945, when she sailed with ON.305, the last westbound convoy. She was paid off December 4 at Shelburne and later taken to Lauzon for conversion to a Prestonian class ocean escort, recommissioning September 20, 1954. She was finally paid off on September 12, 1966, and broken up at Victoria in 1967.

JONQUIERE Statistical Data

Pendant: K318

Type: Frigate

Class: RIVER Class 42-43 Programme

Displacement: 1445 tonnes

Length: 301.5 ft

Width: 36.6 ft

Draught: 9 ft

Speed: 19 kts

Compliment:
8 Officers and 133 Crew

Arms: 2-4" (1 x II), 4-20mm, Hedgehog

Builder: Davie Shipbuilding and Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon, Que.

Keel Laid: 26-Jan-43

Date Launched: 28-Oct-43

Date Commissioned: 11-May-44

Paid off: 04-Dec-45

Remarks

Recommissioned as a Prestonian Class on 20-Sep-54. Pendant Number 318. Finally Paid Off 23-Sep-66.